Symposium: Surgical Neurotology

Cholesteatoma beyond the middle earProfessor Shakeel Saeed, Professor of Otology/Neuro-otology University College London, Ear Institute, Consultant ENT and Skullbase Surgeon, Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK

FC37.1 Comparison of quality of life in patients with vestibular schwannoma treated with observation, radiotherapy or microsurgery
Jessica Ball, Department of ENT, Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Taunton, UK

Thursday 5 July 2018, 14.15-15.15

Symposium: Approaches to the Anterior Skull Base

Just when you thought that further innovation in endoscopic skull base surgery was impossible, we present a 60-minute session exploring developments in anterior skull base surgery. The new frontiers of transorbital and transpterygoid approaches will be explored and, in addition, we will have a debate on the role of the ENT vs the neurosurgeon in the team – are four hands always better than two?

Key learning points:

Appreciate how transorbital approaches provide a new corridor to the skull base – risks and rewards.

Understand indications for an endoscopic transpterygoid approach and overcoming the barriers to disease resection.

Awareness of the advantages of joint working with neurosurgical team, the barriers to teamwork and when it is needed.

FC57.1 Clinical and mutation profiling of olfactory neuroblastoma, establishment of novel olfactory neuroblastoma cell line models and results from drug screening
Matt Lechner, UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom; Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and Head and Neck Centre, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Challenging casesMr Peter Andrews, Consultant Rhinologist, Facial Plastic Reconstructive and Anterior Skull Base Surgeon at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UK

Thursday 5 July 2018, 15.15-16.15

Update: Skull Base Update – The Full 360 Degrees

Chair: Professor Shakeel Saeed, Professor of Otology/Neuro-otology University College London, Ear Institute, Consultant ENT and Skullbase Surgeon, Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London

Friday 6 July 2018, 11.45-13.15

Specialty Keynote: The future of skull base surgery

This 90 minutes session will review the latest evidence and techniques for managing skull base pathology. We have the President of EANO describing innovative techniques for hearing preservation during osseous labyrinthectomy. Experts will debate the latest evidence for managing traumatic facial palsy and a “hot off the press” review of the multi-speciality consensus for managing head and neck paraganglionoma. Lastly, young surgeons will be given key advice on a future in skull base from a surgeon whose training has taken him around the World in search of developing his full 360-degree skull base practice.